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Yep, people at Tech will probably know more solutions to this. If the obvious doesn't work, such as totally cleaning your cache or even reinstalling a browser/java versions, post back.

o89uOcUG2aE Extreme case. Great clip, thanks. But I hate how the scientists try to spin this into genetic modification and "allowing everyone to have these traits", as if it's some paper form on which you can browse though a checklist for abilities for your child. Passing on gene cells that make a child immune to some hereditary diseases, cancers, etc.. Is a good thing. Giving unique traits like synaesthesia, deep cold resistance, ultra-fast processing speed of numbers, to everyone, doesn't just feel right. The people that usually hold these traits are more often than not stunningly intelligent and creative, these special traits shouldn't be spread out by the millions to just everyone like vaccines.

Sorry Ginger, but you're way off on the NFL popularity and net worth. Manchester United alone is worth $1.5 billion dollars:, out of hundreds of top-level soccer teams in EU like Arsenal, Chelsea, Juventus, Barcelona, Bayer München, Lyon, Inter Milan just to name a few http://www.forbes.com/2004/03/24/soccerland.html Also, just in 2002, 1.5 billion people or 1/4th of the world population tuned in to the soccer Fifa 2002 World cup: http://www.allbusiness.com/entertainmen ... 939-1.html The numbers don't even remotely compare to each other, really, NFL is only cared about in the USA, with about 150 million viewers (impressive feat though, half of the US) European soccer teams have huge amounts of fans in almost every country on Earth, plus you can bet on soccer games anywhere; An australian can bet on swedish soccer league matches, a thai peasant can place bets on the norwegian 2nd league soccer games. NFL as a form of betting and as a game itself is completely unknown in most countries of the world. http://www.manutdnsw.com/ http://mymanutd.com/ Just a few examples.. The latter is the malaysian fanclub of ManU, the first is the australian one. I dare say that not a single NFL team has widespread support all over the globe like soccer teams. The abovementioned team literally has 5% of the world population supporting it, or about 330 million fans: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14641698

It's very possible biologically for humans to: Stop urinating 'mid stream' Raise or lower their body temperature Control their heartbeat per minute There's even books on the latter subject, search google books for "Buddhist Psychology: A Modern Perspective" for a free read. People can slow their hearts to 20bpm or less, cool/heat their bodies by -10/+10 celsius degrees.. By using their minds and meditation practice.

thanks for posting that... wow. i seriously got goosebumps in some parts of this clip That guy is a real man. Really, I don't think any american CEO can call themselves devoted to their company after seeing Haruka Nishimatsu. That's just stunning. One similar man that comes to my mind is Warren Buffett. Although he does spend corporate funds on some lavish items, and by shares owned is considered richest man on Earth, he also refuses to withdraw giant, multi-million dollar salaries even though it's his company, and worth $270 billion dollars.

To be honest, a big reason why private servers even exist is because of Jagex's stubborn decision to not let anyone play the game if they didn't login 180 days after the two versions were separated. Instead of wasting all that money on legal fees or lawsuits, they could simply make money by allowing anyone to pay membership to play official RSC on their site. The game will never die out completely, so why they decline to make further profit from it, is beyond me. Maybe it's a naive train of thought that it will just "fade away". Passed years say otherwise, people *still* still play it on their site. If they made it available again, Jagex wouldn't even have to buy new servers. There wouldn't be that many new players, probably will never hit 1,000 simultaneous players online again, yet they'd make more money.

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Hard to know his reasons, going by the bodybuilding forum clue, he might've had body image issues on top of other problems. That's one of the worst reasons to take your life for (if there even are any). A proper person would've motivated him to keep going and perhaps given him reasons why not to take your own life, instead of having some sick thrill by watching a human being take his life on webcam. Funny thing is.. Nothing matters to ignorant kids, until it hits their families. Be it drought, car accident fatalities, premature death, hurricanes, gas shortages, suicide, parental abuse, alcoholism, poverty... Those things happen to people just like you, normal persons with families and friends who (should) care about them. They're not a collection of random events and statistics. No, you shouldn't feel guilt if you didn't see it coming and your friend/relative commits suicide. It's not your fault. But, if you encourage somebody to take their own live, you're just as sick as a murderer. You don't belong to society.

Guess there's a first for everything, literally *every* reply to this topic was flaming, spam and personal attacks. Even if you don't agree with the rant, try having some dignity. Switch servers, players have it easy these days with 100+ servers to select from. Earlier with 10-20 servers and only maybe 5 rune rocks in the game, people were still gaining 99 mining; By coal. Still, you copied this thread word to word: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=761375 You can reply to a thread without having to make an entirely new one & switch a few lines.

I think it's a good thing Forster doesn't want to direct another Bond movie. I saw an interview of him where he explained the huge abudance of action in QoS by the fact there was a long poker game in the previous installment. Frankly, he doesn't seem to know what a Bond movie is about. First and foremost it's about style and subtlety, not "making up for earlier movies". Craig himself seems like a good actor for the role, he should continue the role. It's just a shame his skills go to waste by a director hell-bent on shaky camshots, chaotic action scenes, Bourne-style long violent scenes, etc. Even Casino Royale was 10x more realistic & believeable than this. No, it's not a 'bad' movie, but it doesn't seem like a James Bond one. Not to mention, speeding 60mph with a Haitian fishing boat seems a bit awkward

It changed towards the end of RSC though, Jagex put code in the game that calculated the person who made over 51% damage on a player/NPC and gave XP/loot accordingly. In late-RSC it wasn't possible to just wait until a, say, lesser demon had 2hp and shoot it with fire blast once to get free loot.

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Add idiotic sites like the random section of 4chan to ISP-level unpassable filters, a real-time proxy block updater that crawls free proxy sites for existing & latest proxy IP's, ban them, and the online world gets rid of 90% of the idiocy and memes floating around. Allow parent to block/unblock the filter as long as the child is underage. Current 'control' systems are really sloppy, the only few working systems I read about are in schools. Not many people spend much time surfing for fun during school hours. Not all people are affected by content they see. Still I wouldn't take the risk of exposing my kid to everything that's online, after seeing how disturbed/weird young people can also become in real life after doing so.

Judging by the chat log and Jagex's harsher stance on breaking chat rules, I see no reason to complain why you got muted. It's possible to play the game without acting immature, which obviously wasn't the case here...

The login servers do crash as of late according to many people, there's barely anything to worry about seeing as Jagex has full-time employees keeping an eye on any servers or login-servers that may go out of service briefly due to overload or server-side software bugs/overheating. Wait 5-10 minutes for restoration.

Ok thanks for putting up the link. It all seems bit dubious to me, a quick bit of research shows IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. makes up half the graph and has severe problems with it, ignoring the fact that the author has been linked to Nazism which is a bit of a strawman the sample sizes are very critisiable, less than a few hundred per country. The other half of the data comes from the Pew Global Attitudes Project which has similarly low sample sizes, around 800 max for a country and in some cases much less, put the two together and you get a recipe for disaster. I did wonder when I saw the graph, cos IQ should be completely independant from country. Now I could undesrtand if it was level of education which would differ but I think with such low sample sizes it would be very difficult to discount error and bias. To the guy who said that Atheists consider themselves superior, I have to say that in my experience that's not the case. Its far more about simply not believing or lack of relevance in their lives. I've not met many Atheists who consider atheism a sign of intelligence and those that I have I personally do not consider very intelligent, just arrogant. Oh and can we lose the enormous quotations please? We can look back in the thread to see what others has said if we need to. Pretty thorough research has been done on the subject though; You can view more sources here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threa ... 11920.html It's not biased, insulting or racist. It just happens to be that statistically, a non-religious person on average is more intelligent in terms of IQ than a religious person. There are also brilliant scientists and professors who are religious, the statistics just portray what the average person is, if you were to take a sample of a few people from the general population. There's plenty of intelligent theists around on tip.it too (and some not so wise ones who haven't even studied what they believe in). If you were to take 10 people, 5 non-religious/atheists and 5 religious people, more often than not the non-religious group would outperform the religious one in any IQ-measuring or intelligence testing.

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You mean..All this time..The monsters are not real? This is surely a stunning revelation. It may be hard to believe, but yes. They don't have intricate, dark souls that constantly wait to be slain while you study algebra at school. They are animated frames that collapse once they have been hit a certain number of times. They were likely made by a 29-year old bored graphics designer while he sipped on coffee and worried about his holiday plans. If a player were to lose sleep over not being able to "kill a boss".. Just open the texture folder, download a DDS viewer and watch the dying animation over and over. You can even paste the reward weapon texture and armors onto your desktop and make hundreds of them into a big wallpaper. Or the other alternative, pay $15 a month, spend 10 hours a day and achieve the same end-result.. -.- Except the textures will just be placed in your virtual inventory and character avatar, instead of your desktop, giving you bragging rights and a few seconds of computer game glory.

To be absolutely honest, and it may be a bad idea to post on a RS forum, both games seem extremely boring and repetitive when it comes to gameplay. Really, play a really good RPG like Diablo or Diablo II online and compare it to the actual game-content of RS and WoW. It's like comparing day and night. The only, sole objective both in RS and WoW is raising your online ego and small numbers in your stat screen, plus gaining armor that becomes bigger and bulkier every 10 levels. How people get addicted to doing the exact same things 12 hours a day for months in the exact same locations, just to gain some virtual items, is beyond me. :shock: The next time you "raid" a boss, just remember it's an animated .dds file with a number variable set as it's HP. Another animation is played when it's HP variable reaches 0. It's not an actual monster or boss. Is it worth spending 4 hours to kill it just to get some item on the 10th time? Even worse if you're the healer.. All you do is cast the same 2 buffs and heals for hours. How in the blue hell do people find that addicting...

What exactly is bad about the waste? why does it produce waste? Because of the nuclear fission process. Uranium itself is not *that* radioactive, although it can be lethal and contains thousands of times more radiation than normal building granite, etc. The ore itself is usually converted to hexafluoride gas which undergoes enrichment to increase the uranium-235 content to above 4%. After enrichment the gas gets converted into solid ceramic oxide to be used for reactor fueling elements. The process leaves a massive amount of unusable, depleted uranium which has no function, so it obviously has to be disposed of. In the US and other countries, most often nuclear waste is stored in large silos which are then further stored in mountains, underground vaults and other locations where the risk of leakage is extremely small. I'm surprised you don't know what's "bad" about the waste itself, should it be inhaled, be placed near human organs, etc... Radioactive waste is devastating to the human body, egg and sperm cells, babies, and prolonged contact will cause hideous, often disturbing cancers, genetic mutations, tumors, disfunctions and diseases. If you're young, it's probably best if you don't look for pictures, but those exist. Nuclear waste is one of the most dangerous threats to mankind's collective health.

The legal status in most countries is still "undecided", but you can currently rip DVD's for personal use only (which doesn't include selling them forwards or lending to your friends) under fair use. It's a very debated issue and there are a couple of trials in the US going on: http://www.physorg.com/news93862605.html It's questionable if companies have the right to implement software in the future that would require paying for each copy you make, going against 1st Amendment rights guaranteed to all citizens. If you believe it is legal in your jurisdiction (as it varies VERY much from country to country), you can use a program such as DVD decrypter. As said, it's not as black & white as it may seem at first. It's a totally gray area as of November 2008, do you due diligence if in doubt.

Good news. Some people already knew the "high quality" trick, but after watching some of the 720p widescreen examples.. The stream quality is amazing, indistinguishable from HD-TV. Like eggzs pointed out in his own way though, playing the videos smoothly will take a more or less powerful connection, preferably 5-10mb/s with an unlimited data plan. It's good to see that YouTube is very likely utilizing the massive hard-drive storages of Google (heck, they even offer 7gb for Gmail, most of which is hardly in use) for high quality videos. Maybe in a few years time, those grainy YT videos with horrible sound will be history, like 8-bit Nintendos with their funny, but cute beeping synthetic sounds :lol:

Excellent, short straight to-the-point speech on climate change & global warming by Obama: hvG2XptIEJk His policies will be pretty much the polar opposite of the Bush administration and oil company lobbyists; It will be no surprise if even the Kyoto protocol gets signed during his term. It's no wonder why he's so popular around the world, not just the US; His campaign slogan seems to be more than just thin air. Washington politics will definitely change. As for something that is based on thin air, the question of Obama's birthplace.. See his birth certificate here: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008 ... e_usa.html His opponents obviously couldn't dig up much dirt about his early life, so their main bargaining chip now is claiming the certificate is a "fake", despite being proven real by multiple professionals. The case will go nowhere, so don't worry.